Improvement in edge-planes for trimming the soles and welts of boots and shoes



8.1. TAYMAN.

AEdge Planes for Trimming the Soles and Welts of Boots and Shoes.

N0. 139,034, Patented May20,1873..

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BENJAMIN J TAYMAN,-OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN EDGE-PLANES FOR TRIMMING THE SOLES AND WELTS 0F BOOTS ANDSHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,034, dated May 20,1873; application iled September 28, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN J. TAYMAN, of the city of Philadelphia andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in aHand-Plane for Trimming theSoles and Welts of Boots and Shoes, of whichthe following is a specication:

My invention relates, mainly, to the combination of a knife for trimmingthe soles, and a cutter for trimming the welts, and a gage, guard, andlip with the cutter-stock. The invention also relates to an opening inthe guard for the passage of shavin gs from the weltcutter.

Figures l and 2 are side views, at right angles to each other, of theimproved tool. Fig. 3 is an end view of the same. Figs. 4 and 5 areviews, at right angles to each other, of the gage C. Figs. 6 and 7 arelike views of the guard D. Figs. 8 and 9 are like views of the knife E.Figs. 10 and 1l are like views of the welt-cutter F.

Like letters in all the ligures indicate the same parts.

A is the stock, and B the handle. C is the gage; D, the guard 3 E, theknife for trimming the soles; and F, the cutter for trimming the welts,all of which are shown in detail from Figs. 4 to 1l, inclusive. The.guard D is provided with an opening, a, for the passage of the shavingsfrom the welt-cutter. The entire edge of the guard is left smooth andeventhroughout to prevent injury to the upper, the

opening a being a short distance from the edge, Y

as represented in the drawing. The gage (l is fastened, by means of thescrew b, to the stock A. The knife E is placed in the grooves c c of thestock A and guard D, and confined therein by means of the screw b. TheWeltcutter is placed in the diagonal groove d of thed and set-screw b',substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

, BENJAMIN J. TAYMAN. Witnesses:

TEoMAs J. BEWLEY, STEPHEN UsTIoK.

